microsoft/vscode-cpptools

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Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.

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Indexed issues: 1.4k
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Merged PRs (30d): 61

Dominant language: TypeScript
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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1,388 open issues indexed

Mistake display on variable hint of templated function pointer constexpr variable Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12891 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2024
Unable to pause, step button while using gdb connect to remote gdbserver Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12890 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 26, 2024
#ifdef and #if defined not parsed correctly Open

Language Service Visual Studio Code

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12867 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2024
The item "command" generated in tasks.json has something wrong Open

tasks/build/debug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12862 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2024
"console": "externalTerminal" not re-using terminal window on relaunch. Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12860 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 19, 2024
I cannot stress enough how much I do not want this to happen Open

bug Feature: Rename Language Service performance regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12843 · 8 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2024
IntelliSense gets stuck on Parsing workspace files, usually between 20% to 40%. Open

bug Language Service performance Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12830 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Intellisense (Go to Definition) not working (No definition found) without any debug messages if ~/.cache folder is not accessible Open

bug Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12828 · Opened Oct 10, 2024
#include errors detected. Please update your includePath. Squiggles are disabled for this translation unit Open

external Feature: Configuration Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12826 · 16 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2024
Processing a large compile_commands.json takes too long Open

bug Feature: Compile Commands Language Service performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12825 · 26 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2024
Falsely flagged "expression must have a constant value" for std::numbers Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12810 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2024
Copilot getIncludes doesn't return includes from other workspace folders Open

bug Feature: Copilot Context Feature: Multi-root

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12808 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 4, 2024
Links to docs for clang-tidy checks are for the bundled version instead of the used version. Open

bug Feature: Code Analysis help wanted Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12804 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2024
Locals in Variables spinning forever when the below attached program is debugged Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12800 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2024
IntelliSense cannot find structure member references Open

bug Language Service more votes needed Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12799 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Infinite loop in cpptools std::_Rb_tree_rebalance_for_erase tree.cc line 305 Open

bug Feature: Code Analysis Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12792 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 1, 2024
Unable to use gdbserver stdin/stdout via ssh Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12785 · Opened Sep 30, 2024
C/C++ not scan my code folder (workspace) Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12784 · 17 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 30, 2024
Refactor rename is slow Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12783 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 29, 2024
`std::source_location::function_name` gets inconsistent results with GCC/Clang Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12781 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2024
Make the extension look for the compiler in the PATH environment variable as well Open

compiler support Feature: Configuration Language Service more info needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12779 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Source Server support is missing Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12777 · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Symbols are not found on the symbol server Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12776 · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Core dump debugging performance too slow Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12772 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2024
When using 'dumpPath', 'program' is required yet unused Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12771 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2024
1.22.5: `#cpp` in GitHub Copilot chat doesn't work with non-Insiders VS Code (Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'includes') Open

bug insiders Language Service regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12765 · Opened Sep 25, 2024
Intellisense doesn't work correctly Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12753 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Doxygen alias support Open

Feature Request Feature: Doc comments Language Service

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12752 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Sign the Linux binaries Open

enhancement Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12745 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 19, 2024
With C_Cpp.caseSensitiveFileSupport "enabled" on Windows, IntelliSense sometimes fails Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12732 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Sometimes,I get the invalid path error and cannot link the ICE for debugging. Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12730 · Opened Sep 18, 2024
IntelliSense fails to handle aliased struct Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12724 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Code analysis stop working (until Reload Window) if a save is done while code analysis is running but VS Code doesn't actually send a didSave message Open

bug Feature: Code Analysis Language Service postponed

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12721 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2024
User-defined literal operators are not accepted when using Espressif’s xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc version 13.2.0 Open

bug Feature: Configuration Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12719 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2024
Extract to member function doesn't undo all workspace edits Open

bug Feature: Extract to function investigate: repro Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12713 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2024
Extract to function incorrectly marks refactoring as unavailable when using for loop with a lambda. Open

bug Feature: Extract to function investigate: repro Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12711 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2024
`cppvsdbg` opens a source file relative to `AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code` Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12693 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 7, 2024
All caps header file might get created on Windows when a refactoring operation creates a file that exists in the database but not on the disk Open

bug Feature: Create Declaration or Definition Feature: Extract to function Language Service more votes needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12691 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
Documentation for `C_Cpp.codeAnalysis.clangTidy.enabled` in relation to `C_Cpp.codeAnalysis.runAutomatically` Open

docs Feature: Code Analysis Language Service question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12682 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2024
[Regression] The default path for Compiler path isn't the valid path in the drop-down list but cl.exe Open

bug Language Service regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12663 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 30, 2024
[Regression] Extra error property "compilerPathInCppPropertiesJson" appear when entering invalid information after adding new configuration Open

bug Language Service regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12662 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2024
When a cpptools crash occurs, VS Code sometimes gives a message about 2 formatters registered Open

bug Feature: Code Formatting Language Service reliability

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12659 · Opened Aug 30, 2024
Build automation/tooling to support performance testing and monitoring of the extension Open

internal Language Service performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12644 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2024
VS Code Debugging C/C++ creates a file called "2" in working directory Open

bug debugger help wanted more info needed

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12639 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2024
[GDB pipe DOCKER] Breakpoint hit in runtime loaded lib may not respond in UI Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12637 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2024
gdb executes expression from hovering over a define (expression) without brackets Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12628 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2024
#include completion doesn't work for absolute paths Open

bug Feature: Auto-complete Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12617 · Opened Aug 23, 2024
Crash in code_analysis::process_async::cleanup() Open

bug Language Service regression reliability

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12615 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2024
[Bug] No intellisense from doxygen comments placed above template function declaration with separate implementation Open

bug Feature: Doc comments Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12614 · Opened Aug 22, 2024
Different compilers for intellisense and static analysis Open

Feature: Code Analysis investigate: repro Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12605 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2024

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